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The Future is Here! It’s “Freejack” Day - 23rd November 2009

23 November 2009 1:11 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Finally we can all relax; we’re officially living in the future – at least according to the 1992 dystopian sci-fi thriller Freejack, directed by Geoff Murphy (The Quiet Earth) and starring Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins and… Mick Jagger!

Set on the 23rd November 2009, it envisions a desperate future where men are hunted through time to house the minds of the rich and influential, who wait after death on the Spiritual Switchboard until a host body is drafted from the past. Estevez is one such host, or Freejack, as he’s zipped from a car crash in 1993 all the way to… now… where he’s chased around by Mick Jagger, playing a bounty hunter (‘Bonejacker’) called Vacendak, working for Hopkins. Estevez escapes and tries to find his former girlfriend (Russo), who’s become an executive at a huge corporation. The film is based on Immortality Inc. by author Robert Sheckley, …

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'Silent Hill 2,' Cage Talks 'Hornet,' 'Lovely Bones' Book Art and More

16 September 2009 1:42 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Set picture from the set of Red Dawn

Photo: Ain't It Cool News To begin with, we have the above teaser pic from three images Ain't It Cool News acquired from the set of the Red Dawn remake filming in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Get the rest right here. One of the strangest things in the movie blogosphere is the trend to write articles about things that are not going to happen. Actress Xyz will not star in movie ABC. Director Def will not be directing movie Ghi. The latest topic of conversation is that DC Entertainment's Diane Nelson told MTV the newly formed company doesn't "have any current plans for Superman." The only reason this is news is because it simply means the B.S. rumors that have been swirling since Bryan Singer's 2006 effort have all been a waste of time. Big surprise. However, that doesn't mean other sequels aren't getting underway. …

- Brad Brevet

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Concept Art for The Cross, Gattaca Helmer Andrew Niccol’s Next Film

16 September 2009 8:27 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

As we've reported earlier this year, Andrew Niccol's next movie will be The Cross, starring Orlando Bloom, Olga Kurylenko, John Goodman and Vincent Cassel. The $24m 'sci-fi escape story' is in production now in Australia, and is said to return Niccol to the sort of serious science fiction approach that characterized Gattaca and his script for The Truman Show. Now we've got some concept art from designer Jean-Vinzent Puzos that shows a bit of what we can expect from the film. The Quiet Earth has the art; I've reproduced only a couple shots, and you can see the rest by visiting their site. The script concerns a border, at least in the most obvious plot-oriented terms. The art we're seeing now seems to mostly represent the border town to which Orlando Bloom and his character's younger brother come in search of passage to a new life. The military influence …

- Russ Fischer

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Max Jacoby's incredible looking Pa drama Dust to premier at Pusan + poster

11 September 2009 1:42 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

We've been following Max Jacoby's arthouse take on the Pa drama (with a hint of The Quiet Earth) for quite a long time, in fact, we posted the trailer back in August which looks nothing short of spectacular. Now, via the director, we have word the film will be premiering at the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea on October 12th with details right here. He also sent along the first two real posers, one of which you can see to the right.

Elodie and Elias are sixteen-year-old twins who live by themselves in the shadow of the dam of a man-made lake. We slowly find out that the world they are living in is depopulated, except for a few scattered survivors with whom they have no contact. Surrounded by this total emptiness, Elodie and Elias have gotten closer to each other than ordinary twins.

One day, on …

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Sci-Fi Cinema Obscura: The Quiet Earth

3 September 2009 5:09 PM, PDT | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »

Shhh, don’t make a sound because this week we’ll be tiptoeing our way around The Quiet Earth (1985).  The Basics A scientist finds himself all alone in a big city after everyone in has been wiped out. He spends his time looking for other survivors all the while suspecting government shenanigans as being responsible for everyone dying. Sound familiar? Yep, yet another post-apocalyptic scenario (gonna start calling it post-ap…or maybe not…). Soon other people start popping out amidst the devastation and they all try and uncover why they’re the only survivors left alive.  The Review Again! If you’re looking for flashy special effects and massive explosions and messed up looking aliens hopping about everywhere then stop reading and go away. Coming from the same place as everyone’s favorite post-ap movie Lord of the Rings, this New Zealand film takes a good hard look at what …

- Basil Murad

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Top Ten Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Films

6 July 2009 2:25 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Top Ten Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Films It seems Hollywood's infatuation with the end of the world has found its place in 2009 with releases such as Knowing this past March and upcoming releases such as 9, The Road and 2012 later this year. I never saw The Horsemen, but I know it had an apocalyptic theme, and films such as Terminator Salvation and even Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen threaten the continued existence of the human race. So, with such a situation at hand what better time than now to take a look at what I believe to be the best apocalyptic films of all-time... or at the very least of those I have seen... We all have a morbid curiosity when it comes to the world's end. Will it go with a whimper or a bang? Will the apocalypse be man-made, ape-made, E.T.-made, nature-made, or God-made? Will I be holding Nicolas Cage …

- David Frank

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